CFP: Women in Rock (4/20/06; MMLA, 11/9/06-11/12/06)

full name / name of organization:

Patricia Rudden

contact email:

huntergirl@nyc.rr.com

Women's Caucus for the Modern Languages/Midwest II:

"Women in Rock: Gettin' High, Lookin' Low." The world of women in rockmay be the busiest intersection of high and low culture. Do some femalerockers participate in both high and low culture all along? How dowomen rockers appropriate and work elements of high and low cultureinto something they can call their own? Do the samerace-and-class-based definitions of “high” and “low” operate in thefemale rock universe, or have other ways emerged? And how do weunderstand the high-and-low cultural borders and the ways—andreasons--rock women cross them? These panels will examine therelationship between the work women do in rock and pop music and theworlds of “higher” and “lower” culture, musical and otherwise.

200-word abstracts by April 20 to:

Patricia S. RuddenEnglish DepartmentNew York City College of Technology,/CUNYprudden_at_citytech.cuny.edu